Giora Eshkol
Germany
Master of traditional art and 3d animation creator.
Born in 1952, Tel Aviv, Israel.
sdudied at Avni Art School
Technical drawings and illustrations for the IAF,
Fashion design in Kuppferberg Studio, Holon.
Special effects for Lorimar Productions - Big Red One, Universal Studios- Masada, and as Props in Ronny Yaakov Productions - Dizengoff 99.
Mentored by Victor Honigman to draw applying,
Andrew Loomis techniques
Instructor at the Bustan Art School, and in the city of Giveataeim, Israel.
Self trained in Computer Graphics 1984 (Commodore64, PC, Amiga4k, SGI ).
Moved to US 1986 as a fine artist, a painter, sculptor, and computer graphics novice
Started creating 3D Animation 1993 and got his first breaking job
at the biggest post house in Hollywood Ca.. The Post Group,ﾝ.
working with the legendary producers Marc Franco and
Bob Gutiery. Created the 'The 22nd Daytime Emmy Awards',
'The 47 Annual Emmy Awards' and other 3d animated graphics
among them commercials for Disney, Motorola, and Chrysler
In 1995 was invited to work at 'Tsi' a pioneering Motion
Capture studio in Los Angeles founded by Alberto Menache.
In Tsi, took a major part in the studio 3D Characters Modeling
and Rigging. That year also created the Motion Captured Character
of 'The Pillsbury Doughboy' for the studio,
a work that was commissioned by the Leo Burnett Ad Agency.
In 1996 was invited by Tom Tolls and Brett Gassaway from the
'House of Moves' (another major Motion Capture Studio in Hollywood)
to rig the face and body of Bruce Willis for 'Apocalypse'
(a computer game commissioned by Activision and Sony).
In 1997 created 'The 54th Golden Globe Awards'
graphic Animated title for 'Dick Clark Productions'
at The Complete Post in Hollywood CA.
1998-2000 self studied Animation, Computer Graphics,
Programming, Cinematography, Acting, Non Verbal Communication,
Story Telling, Film Production, and Post.
In the year 2000 Started to teach Mayaﾝ
(The leading 3d animation software by Alias Wavefront)
and was the chief instructor for 3 years at Memad-Ascola a school of fine art and design in Tel-Aviv Israel.
In 2003 Giora founded real-3d Animation Studio
2009 Giora moved to Germany creating solo 3d animated shorts,
2013- Art instructor at Pi